Traditional Philippine musical instruments
Philippine traditional musical instruments are commonly grouped into four categories: aerophones, chordophones, membranophones, and idiophones.
Aerophones
- Bulungudyong – vertical flute
- Diwas
- Palendag – lip-valley flute
- Tongali – nose flute
- Tumpong – bamboo flute
- Tulali – flute with 6 holes
- Bansik – bamboo flute with three holes of the Negrito people in Zambales
- Tambuli – Carabao horn
Chordophones
- Litguit – a three-stringed bamboo violin of the Aeta people
- Butting – a bow with a single hemp 5 string, plucked with a small stick
- Faglong – a two-stringed, lute-like instrument of the B'laan; made in 1997
- Budlong – bamboo zither
- Kolitong – a bamboo zither
- Pas-ing – a two-stringed bamboo with a hole in the middle from Apayao people
- Kudyapi – a two-stringed boat lute from Mindanao
Membranophones
- Dabakan – goblet drum
- Gandang – double-headed barrel drum
- Libbit – conical drum
- Sulibao – conical drum
- Gambal – war drums
Idiophones
- Agung a tamlang – bamboo
- Agung – large gong suspended from an ornate frame
- Bungkaka – bamboo buzzer
- Gandingan – set of four large hanging knobbed gongs
- Kagul – scraper
- Kulintang – set of eight tuned gongs placed horizontally in an ornate frame, tuned pentatonic scale|pentatonically.
- Gabbang – bamboo xylophone
- Luntang – wooden beams hanging from a frame
- Kulintang a tiniok – set of eight, tuned knobbed metal plates strung on a wooden frame
- Babandil – small gong
- Saronay – eight tuned knobbed metal plates strung over a wooden frame
- Tongatong – stamping tubes of the Kalinga people